Leeds were superb in the first half. They kept us in check, they kept their positioning and we looked clueless for much of the game. My heart almost sank when they scored their first, we had dropped 3 points against Brighton before the international break and it looked like we will drop points again. But, the substitutions fixed it. Calafiori’s goal wasn’t very mesmerizing but Mikel sensed a win after that goal, brought in Gyokeres, Timber and Guimaraes and it paid off. Gyokeres was much better than Havertz in pressing and creating some unrest in the Leeds half, Timber is certainly better than White and Guimaraes scored a beautiful goal to put us forward. Bukayo Saka did miss a 1v1 against the Leeds goalkeeper in the last few seconds of the game but hey, we walked out with 3 points.
In out title winning last season, there were 5 games where we finished the game with at least one point after trailing. There were 3 draws and 2 wins. This season, we have already done this twice (against Chelsea and Leeds) in 6 games and we have won both game ultimately. That’s a sign of confidence, that’s also a sign of a good bench because when you need players who can make changes, you look towards your bench and they deliver. Bruno G has been a great addition as well. This is brilliant because going down 1-0 in the 15th minute doesn’t mean the game is over for us anymore.
Coming back the progress so far, we are sitting on 2nd place with 15 points behind City. We wanted those YNWA cunts to win a game for once, and they fucked it.
We are just 6 games into the season, there’s not much to deduce from this as of now. We would need few more games to comment and go berserk.
Champions League hasn’t picked up the pace yet. We have won the only game we played so far, there’s 2 more games this month and one of them is against Bayern. It would be exciting few days. We have a 4th round Carabao Cup match against Fleetwood later in the month. There’s a long way to go before we would have the trophy in sight.
I missed talking about the 115 charges of Man City. They have been found guilty of all the charges, but I don’t think Premier League has the guts to punish them. You and I both know a 100m GBP fine will be a slap on the wrist and a transfer ban is something that they can live with. And, there is no chance Premier League will tarnish its credibility by taking away the titles City has won over the years. If you ask me, they should be demoted so down the league, you could spot Erling Haaland playing in the park behind NHS building in East Ham against the 14 years old, while taking instructions in Bengali. Fucking cheats, ruining the images of the best league in the world.
In the other part of world, Mourinho is not able to discipline Vinicious Jr. I have zero confidence Mikel could have done better, because if anyone has bigger ego than Mikel, it’s Mou. I was excited for that Brazilian but looks like that was a good miss for us. It would have caused chaos in an otherwise gentlemen dressing room.
Mikel got his new 4 years contract. That was expected after the title win in 23 years. We can all stop whining now, he is not going anywhere and he has a trophy to show. However, that doesn’t mean he will not get his fair share of criticism. He might have a Premier League trophy, but there’s Champions League left. And then we would go for the treble.
Right, that’s me done. Life’s been busy lately with work, kid, family, but I will keep trying my best. This place is open as always, and I am going to try to bring in some more people in comments section through X/Twitter and Reddit.
See you in the comments.
What this weekend’s games have shown is the importance of having a quality keeper.
We all know that Raya is the best in the league, signing him was great business by the club, it was always baffling to me as to why Arteta would sign such an unstable keeper as Ramsdale , though i have no doubt the consensus of opinion on here would have been in favour of Ramsdale.
Pushing Raya for best keeper is the villa keeper Suzuki who appears to have it all, composure ,Bravery, good with the ball at his feet and decision making , and looks to dominate the box.
The main factor in Villa beating city were the performances of the 2 keepers, Donuramma looked slow and lacking agility compared to Suzuki.
The Chelsea keeper was at fault at the bridge yesterday which cost them the match and Trafford had a very solid game in goal for Leeds in difficult weather conditions.
Unfortunately last season, Arteta’s decision to give Kepa game time in the domestic cups nearly derailed our season , though it did cost us in the final v city, I don’t see a problem giving kepa game time in the early rounds but when it comes to after stages it has to be Raya..
I’m looking forward to the unorthodox nature of tomorrow’s Cara-bong game. An away game at Highbury playing a team wearing Arsenal kits. Not even going to have a stab at who’ll play in goal let alone the outfield players but it’s cool to have a game where even Tetty can’t fuck things up.
Gusting wind and a good chance of rain – El B may need to change his wig at half time.
…and keep a couple of packets of Fisherman’s Friends in his pocket, which, coincidentally, happen to be manufactured in Fleetwood.
NORG
Are you a fan? Of FFs that is. I could just about tolerate them on a winter’s morning and similarly had no prejudice towards Tunes, Lockets and Halls menthol eucalyptus. But Victory Vs? No fucking way would I ever stick one of those confectionary cunts in my north and south again. Ooh…and those twisted red cough candy shits were terrific by the ounce out of those big glass jars.
Got any amusing cough sweet/linctus related anecdotes? I used to love sneeking an extra tablespoon of benedryl or night nurse before bedtime. COVONIA!
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Kids
Never, under any circumstances, ever try eating these fuckers, which are akin to Satan’s haemorrhoids. 🍇
more like a Billion Dollhairs squad…Havertz is like a trojan horse fucktard, as if he’s employed by the opposition
As I have previously said…
Arteta, and all the sycophants who suck his balls, are monumental cunts.
You fucking idiot Pricksy. You must feel like a complete clown.
Victory Vs all round for the 4th division’s Fleetwood Town. Is Carrick available yet? We need a managerial upgrade on Cunteta.
Did you see that soppy gormless cunt with the badges on his head and the yellow broken gnashers at the game
Was it Wicksy?
KP
My advice to you is not to lower yourself to the level of Vera and Ufraud by throwing insults because your team has lost, it’s not a good look and rather childish, leave the juvenile remarks to Vera .
It’s never nice to lose a game of football but It is the league cup and not having to play a 2 legged semi final in January will only be to our advantage.
We had a number of players who looked rusty through lack of game time, namely Mosquera, Hincape, Zubimendi, timber and Dowman, plus we had a couple of strikers who were clueless, with Havertz being the main culprit with woeful finishing. The team looked devoid of ideas but what it will do is hasten our attempt to buy a striker in the January window, Gyokeres hasn’t a clue how to find space and Havertz finishing has always been suspect.
Arteta needs to take a good look at himself for his reaction towards Dowman after a very harsh red card, probably one of the worse decisions I’ve seen from a clueless referee.
Of course , as you have already proved KP , there will be an over reaction to the defeat for the next few days , but any educated fan would know that going out of this competition will prove to be a blessing in disguise, well done to Fleetwood for a battling performance and a perfect penalty shoot out..
Maybe Marc and Vera were correct in their assumption after the Bayern game in the week that fielding a weakened side was the prime reason for drawing against Arsenal , so if they are consistent in their views then I assume they would come to the conclusion that the draw v Fleetwood today was a consequence of fielding a weakened side
Pricksy—just when I thought you couldn’t possibly be a bigger tool you proved me wrong again…somehow you’ve emerged from this epic blunder with a silver lining, as if easing our burden come January was the plan all along…when I was a youngster there was an expression that was commonly used to describe those who acted in a supremely reckless and/or senseless manner, most notably obvious victims in a horror movie…since that time I’ve known very few individuals who’ve met, let alone exceeded, the criteria required to be considered “too stupid to live”, but you’re well on your way…not only did you blame the refs for the fcuking umpteenth time, you likewise tried to compare a CL game against Bayern, who btw had no choice but to field a weakened side, to a Cup fixture against a minnow where we started YOUR early days favourite VG/Havertz combo, who make more in a week than their whole side makes in a year…so for the love of god shut your flip-flopping excuse-laden cunty pie hole…best wishes to you and yours
The team were too busy sucking their Fishermans Freinds or were they gob stoppers.
Art,
Yeah the geezer was a Fleetwood supporter so it could well have been Pricksy. Those teeth suggested a lifetime spent sucking Fisherman’s Friends and Arteta’s chopper.
What was that in any case?
You fake, fucktard, sermonising, virtue signalling, sycophantic, snowflake, blowhard, reform supporting, testicle sooking, spurs supporting, cough sweet licking, non-entity.
I could go on (and on) but Vieira is better at it than me. You’re sooooo charmless and boring. You continually come on here like a mange-encrusted cock-a-poo returning to its own sick.
Where’s that litre bucket of night nurse?
The slag will be on AI soon
churning out his usual bollocks.
He is a cunt. Harmless, but a cunt.
One of those supporters, that thinks his club can do no wrong.
I suppose it was the PGMOLs fault, the cunts lost and the fat Geordie missed another penalty, exactly like he did in the World Cup for Brazil against Norway.
Fat useless, over paid Geordie cunt , cant take a penalty under pressure, yet still the moronic cunt bought him for £65 million.
Same fuckin wank lazy run up , same weak as piss shot, same corner, exactly like he did for Brazil against Norway , which his country lost.
Cunt.
Regarding the challenge on Dowman.
Back in 1988 vinny jones did a similar cowardly challenge on Gary Stevens by the touchline that basically ended Steven’s career, I would put the cowardly challenge last night in a similar category, both players won the ball , both players tried to cause maximum damage to the player by following through.
Fortunately for Dowman the tackle last night didn’t cause the damage that Stevens suffered.
One would like to think that the red will be overturned but that would be admitting the ref made a mistake so I doubt if they will rescind the red card.
hardly different from the incident when Foden was sent off against United, except that in this case he was standing when he kicked out and there was no VAR in play…Dowman’s reaction was petulant and naive, which doesn’t mean that the defender involved shouldn’t have received a yellow…that said, one was a football play, whereas the other was simply a retaliatory knee-jerk reaction, which could have been much more serious if the player was in a slightly different position…one should never underestimate the power a footballer wields in his legs…if any of our players were on the receiving end they would be rolling around and screaming bloody murder, which they already do for far less…of course no matter the prevailing facts MA was always going to appeal the decision, as he loves to fan the flames of every conspiratorial nutjob within the fanbase…what makes this so fucking hilarious is that for all MA’s complaints about VAR, he will now suggest that had VAR been available it would have sided with his viewpoint because he’s a cake and eat it too fucktard just like our resident numpty Pricksy
Wicksy
So you’re saying Havertz and Gyokeres aren’t good enough?
Then why the fuck did Arteta spend £120 million on buying them? That’s before we get to the half a million a week combined wages.
And to compare Arsenal last night with a rotated squad with Bayern being without 7 first teamers is pathetic. Havertz annual salary is double Fleetwood’s annual turnover.
Expect Cuntyballs to put even less effort into motivating the team for the FA cup in January. Fucking turd.
Havertz is a long lanky streak of useless Chelsea piss and a cunt to boot.
This useless cunt in charge would not appreciate talent like Yamal, Mbappe, Bellingham or Doue and Dembele and Kvaratskhelia
Because He is A Cunt as are all his cocksucking supporters like this cunt on here.
They need to be called out.
Cunts.